[plug] unknown hosts

[Christian]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:57:27PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Steve Grasso wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> If you can't ssh into d3server from your gateway by hand, check the file
> >> /etc/hosts.deny for a line saying ALL:ALL and if it's there, delete it.
> 
> > Hmm.....what's wrong with leaving ALL:ALL in hosts.deny, but adding
> > sshd: ALL : ALLOW to hosts.allow?
> 
> Simpler, and makes other services go as well. Alex's box isn't running anything
> that needs firewalling yet.

This is the wrong attitude.  All services required should be
specifically enabled.  Any suggestion to completely open a box up 
to get one thing working for the sake of simplicity is just as bad
advice as suggesting using 'chmod 777' to share a file or solve some
similar permissions problem.